Espérance Hippolyte Lassagne (c. 1786 – 1854) was a French

chansonnier A chansonnier ( ca, cançoner, oc, cançonièr, Galician and pt, cancioneiro, it, canzoniere or ''canzoniéro'', es, cancionero) is a manuscript or printed book which contains a collection of chansons, or polyphonic and monophonic settings o ...

and

playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...

during the first half of the 19th century.

Biography

An employee at the

Palais-Royal The Palais-Royal () is a former royal palace located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France. The screened entrance court faces the Place du Palais-Royal, opposite the Louvre. Originally called the Palais-Cardinal, it was built for Cardinal ...

(1823) in the administration of the Duke of Orleans ( Louis Philippe I) in Paris, he had under him

Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas (, ; ; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (), 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas père (where '' '' is French for 'father', to distinguish him from his son Alexandre Dumas fils), was a French writer ...

then hired as a copyist, whom he introduced into the literary life.Claude Schopp, ''Dictionnaire Alexandre Dumas'', 2010, He wrote with him the play '' La Noce et l'Enterrement'' which would be presented at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin in 1826. His plays were presented on the most significant Parisian stages of his fifetime: Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre de l'Odéon, Théâtre des Variétés etc.

Works

*1824: ''La Pièce de circonstance, ou le Théâtre dans la caserne'', à-propos-vaudeville *1824: ''La Rue du Carrousel, ou le Musée en boutique'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Théodore Anne *1825: ''Dansera-t-on ? ou les Deux adjoints'', à-propos vaudeville in 1 act, with Paul Ledoux *1825: ''Les Singes, ou la Parade dans le salon'', vaudeville in 1 act, with Rochefort and Brisset *1826: ''La pêche de Vulcain, ou L'île des fleuves'', à-propos mingled with vaudeville, with

Mathurin-Joseph Brisset Mathurin-Joseph Brisset (22 November 1792 – 7 June 1856) was a French writer, poet, political journalist and playwright of the first half of the 19th century. Biography A bodyguard attached to the company of Havré, then an infantry officer ...

and

Edmond Rochefort Edmond Rochefort, full name Claude-Louis-Marie de Rochefort-Luçay (Évaux-les-Bains, 1790 – Paris, April 1871), was a French writer, dramatist, vaudevillist and songs writer. His only play that was met with some success is ''Jocko ou le Singe d ...

*1826: ''Le Prologue impromptu, ou les Acteurs en retard'', à propos in 1 act and in vaudevilles, with Marc-Antoine Désaugiers *1826: '' La Noce et l'Enterrement'', play, with

and Gustave Vulpian *1828: ''Le Farceur de société, ou les Suites d'une parade'', play in 2 acts, mingled with couplets, with Rochefort *1828: ''Les Omnibus, ou la Revue en voiture'', vaudeville en 4 tableaux, with

Frédéric de Courcy Frédéric de Courcy, born Frédéric Charlot de CourcyThus he is not part of the Norman Courcy family, contrary to his entry in ''Dictionnaire de biographie française'' (16 August 1796, Paris – 6 May 1862, Paris) was a French dramatist, poet an ...

and Charles Dupeuty *1828: ''Le Restaurant, ou le Quart d'heure de Rabelais'', tableau-vaudeville in 1 act, with de Courcy *undated; ''Le Retour du guernadier'', song

References

19th-century French dramatists and playwrights French chansonniers 1854 deaths Alexandre Dumas Year of birth uncertain {{France-playwright-stub